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Senior Software Engineer - Storage

San Mateo, USAOn-sitePosted 1 month ago

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Job type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Level
Senior
Department
Software Development
Experience
5+ years experience
Posted
Aug 21, 2026

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer for the storage team within infra org, you’ll be innovating & running large scale distributed systems in-house in order to meet Roblox’s ever increasing challenges on storage business needs, such as caching, message queue.

You will:

  • Have a leading role in designing, implementing and running our internal Infra-as-a-Service offerings on top of a container orchestrator platform
  • Improve & scale our large distributed 24x7 services and deliver features with urgency, cost efficiency, 4+ 9s availability and elastic scalability
  • Design and build frameworks/tools to automate development, testing, cluster management and monitoring of mission critical services
  • Collaborate with partner teams, producing project work plans, measurable metrics, delivery milestones, rollout plan, oncall alerts and runbooks while leveraging existing technology stack
  • Give a high level of attention to create high quality & reusable code, keep development continuously without compromising site reliability
  • Work with stakeholders to influence the strategy for the next generation of product features and system capabilities, identifying the best practical way to deliver impactful functionalities
  • Improve SLA of the offering services and end-end rollout time of our suite of software solutions

You Have:

  • Strong experience in designing, delivering & operating large-scale distributed systems handling billions of real-time requests per second.
  • Strong experience & builder mindset to run large scale Active/Active distributed systems on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul
  • Strong experience with programming languages like Go, Java or C++
  • Strong scripting and test automation abilities
  • Experience with telemetry stacks, like Grafana, Prometheus monitoring, AlertManager and Kibana
  • BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, with at least 5 years of hands on experience